Many of us do not alert of expire date when they do their shopping especially when they purchase food items. Some of them may only realize it until they tasted the food and found that it is not as pleasant as the one that they tried before. However, I'm very particular about this because I have already experienced it many times. Thus, I am very careful and always check the expire date of every single item and this already become my shopping habit before I purchase something.

Recently, my colleague offered me a dozen of Malta Quench for free, which is my favorite drink. This product actually has been distributed to all my colleagues before I came in to the office. It was the remaining product that did not finish during the product test survey and they don't want to waste it, so they decided to give it as a free drink to everybody. I found few empty can in the dustbin which some of them already drank a few cans.

Although this Malta Quench was given free, I will still check the expire date as what I usually do and when some one pass on things like foods to me.
You know what?
I found the bottom of the can printed BEST BEFORE 2008-10. The date for best consume is already "Expired". I can't image if I have already drank it I could have vomited it out. However, everyone seems like still very healthy the next day morning when they back to the office. Perhaps, they use to print few months early before the actual expire date. But we still need to take precaution on it.

Before I end this message, I would like to add on something. Many shoppers do not aware the expire date printed on the bottle of mineral water. They thought that there is no expire date on mineral water.
Just to remind all of you, every mineral water has its' expire date. I'm very particular about the expire date of mineral water because I use to buy mineral water from petrol station.

The reason why I buy mineral water is because I don't cook or boil water at home, as I feel not safe to drink the dirty water supply in my house.